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  • KC Area Feasts on Food, Beverage Manufacturing

    by Mary Rooney | Aug 03, 2021
    Chris Gutierrez shares with the Kansas City Business Journal how the KC region’s $125.4 billion food and beverage industry continues to grow.
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  • Cold Storage Speculative Building Breaks Ground in KC

    by Mary Rooney | Aug 03, 2021
    The Heartland Cold Storage Logistics Center broke ground in July. The first cold storage industrial speculative building in the Kansas City market is expected to be completed in Q1 2022.
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  • KC SmartPort Food & Beverage Industry Update

    by Mary Rooney | Jun 30, 2021
    More than 670 industrial food and beverage companies call Kansas City home and it’s not hard to see why. Kansas City’s $125.4 billion food and beverage industry continues to thrive with proximity to key agriculture markets, advanced logistics infrastructure, clean and reliable water supply, abundant utility capacity and a strong industry-specific talent pipeline. Kansas City has a workforce of more than 25,500 people employed in food and beverage manufacturing, warehousing and distribution
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